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Feroz Khan’s All the Best

In the evening today there was a Bollywood play "All the Best" directed by distinguished director "Feroz Khan". I was hoping it will be in English as my understanding of Hindi is extremely limited, and I will certainly not be able to appreciate a Comedy Play in Hindi. The play did turn out to be in Hindi, but since the play had a mute character there was lot of hand gestures and body language so I could understand it well and was able to have split laughs as well. The appreciation should go to the four excellent actors (Iqbal Azad, Kikoo Sharda, Kranti Redkar and Vikas Kadam) who performed brilliantly on the stage.

All the Best Hindi Play

The play deals with three friends, one blind, the other deaf and third mute, who all fall for the same girl.

If this comes to your town, don’t miss it.

No Water in a 5 star hotel

For a Microsoft event I am staying here at Renaissance in Mumbai (A Mariott Hotel) and they allotted me a room in the newly constructed (nearly complete) Renaissance Towers – like in Software we were made to beta test the towers!.

In the morning when I got up and went for my bath – surprise, no running water. The housekeeping didn’t even have an estimate of when they will have it repaired and they didn’t even show a sign of remorse for their poor service. I had to do a “Luxury” act of brushing my teeth with bottled water, then with the help of perfumes and a set of clean clothes  I went for my breakfast meeting. I was feeling a little better that the person I met was also staying in the Towers and couldn’t have his bath either :-)

After an hour, water supply was restored but that too only Warm Water – no Cold Water!

I was lucky today at MS Partner T20 Event

For last two days I am attending Microsoft India Partner Summit titled “T20″ at Mumbai. Yesterday there was a written quiz on Microsoft Virtualization , I attempted just for fun. Generally I am not lucky to win any prizes, but today was my day.

In the morning they announced my name as one of the winners for XBOX 360, I was happy to collect it. On my way back to my room I was invited to a game show where they had questions on Windows Live/Vista/IE 8 and were giving prizes up to 10 Grams of Gold. I played and answered a simple question on Windows Live (being a Windows Live MVP does help) and won a 2GB USB Thumb-Drive.

XBOX 360 that I own today at T20 - MS India Partner Summit

Since I got my prize, I helped the gentleman next to me to answer the next question and he won the 10 Grams of Gold :-)